Teachers | Education Elements | Curriculum Strategy & Adoption
Our goal at Ed Elements is to help schools integrate instructional practice and technology to create classrooms that inspire both teaching and learning. Driven by this shared passion to affect outcomes for the next generation of teachers and students, the team at Education Elements has been working hard to make our vision a reality in more classrooms across the country.
In the field, our school consultants and design experts partner with leading schools and districts to re-imagine the classroom experience and engage in a facilitated design exercise to come up with dozens of innovative ideas about instructional model, classroom layout, bell schedule and staffing to fit each school’s unique goals, values and culture. As a former member of this team, I can attest to the level of effort required for schools to make this shift, both in philosophy and in practice. We are incredibly humbled by the work schools are doing to pioneer 21st century learning, and proud to partner with them in their effort to transition to blended learning.
Behind the scenes, our product team is developing our cloud-based platform, the Hybrid Learning Management System (HLMS), which unifies the classroom experience for teachers, students and administrators so that teachers are supported with actionable insights from multiple data sources to drive instruction and students are supported with the right resource at the right time, for a truly personalized learning experience. The HLMS is designed to integrate with an array of content and applications from leading educational publishers; we call this our “ecosystem.”
This past quarter, over two dozen new content and application partners have joined our ecosystem - a development we are thrilled about. Months ago, our team sketched out our partnership strategy. We had a simple yet ambitious goal: to support integrations with the most innovative and rigorous digital content and application products out there. Underlying that goal was a desire to create a platform that afforded teachers and administrators options - the ability to choose exactly the right mix of content and applications to bring digital learning to life in their school. It has been truly inspiring to see a range of leaders in the ed-tech space - from mature publishers such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Compass Learning to newer companies like eSpark, Pathbrite, and Kickboard - come together and align with us in this vision for blended learning. And, it has been even more inspiring to witness our partners’ commitment to learning (alongside us!) how, together, we can create product experiences that really deliver value for schools.
We salute our partners for creating incredible content and application products that are invaluable to teacher and student success. We hope to continue to provide value to our partners in a number of ways. First, through our deep services engagement with schools, we help create environments that drive student engagement and that are broadly conducive to high-fidelity implementations. Second, based on our internal evaluations and insight into how schools are using their digital content and applications, we provide critical feedback that helps our partners strengthen their products. And finally, we provide thought leadership and bring together leaders in a fragmented marketplace, so that as partners in a shared mission, we can focus our collective efforts on creating classrooms that inspire teaching and learning.
Thank you to our 2012-2013 partners and a warm welcome to our 2013-2014 partners! We look forward to our work together and continually adding new members to the Education Elements family.
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Please see today’s Press Release.
For a full list of our partners for 2013-2014, please visit our website.
If you are an innovative content or application provider and are interested in partnering with us, please contact us (info@edelements.com).
